In medieval castles, the chemise (French: "shirt") was typically a low wall encircling the keep, protecting the base of the tower. Alternative terms, more...
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electronic "wall" to log the scrawls of friends until it was replaced by the "timeline" feature. Ashlar Chemise (wall) Clay panel Climbing wall Crinkle crankle...
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photo of HMS Campbeltown after the St Nazaire Raid before she exploded. Chemise (wall) Pavise Gabion Testudo formation Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation...
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Henry replaced the keep with another stone shell keep and chemise wall, but moved the walls in from the edge of the motte to relieve the pressure on the...
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Stahleck Castle (section Shield wall and main entrance)
defended from the high hillside on the west by a chemise wall which has been fortified to form a shield wall 2.6 m thick. There is an interior stairway, which...
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side, to which were attached two other towers and a partial mantlet or chemise wall. At the north-west corner is a twin square-towered gatehouse with another...
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"Tomber la chemise" (English: literally "Take Off Your Shirt" but the meaning is "Get ready to play hard") is a 1998 song by the Toulousian collective...
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Octagonal turrets on the chemise and caponiers at ground level provided flanking fire around the tower. It is unclear whether the chemise was part of the original...
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introducing in 1957 the fuller but tapering "sack/sac dress," also called the chemise dress, soon copied by Christian Dior for his 1957 Fuseau/Spindle line....
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Punjabi culture (section Wall paintings)
churidars. Origin: From Arabic qamīṣ, perhaps from late Latin camisia (see chemise). Platts, John Thompson (February 2015) [1884], A dictionary of Urdu, classical...
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